Starch Manufacturers, &c. (State) Award

 

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COMMISSION OF NEW SOUTH WALES

 

Application by National Union of Workers, New South Wales Branch, Industrial Organisation of Employees.

 

(No. IRC 757 of 2006)

 

 

VARIATION

 

1.          Delete subclause (i) of clause 21 Sunday and Holiday Rates, of the award published 8 June 2001 (325 I.G. 370) and insert in lieu thereof the following:

 

(i)

 

(a)        The days upon which New Years Day, Australia Day, Good Friday, Easter Saturday, Easter Monday, Anzac Day, Queen's Birthday, Labour Day, Christmas Day and Boxing Day are observed and an additional holiday, which shall be held on the last Monday in October each year, together with any other days which shall be proclaimed by the Government as public holidays shall be recognised as holidays and no deduction shall be made from the wages of weekly employees for such holidays if not worked; provided that, in the case of shift workers, each such holiday shall be deemed to commence at the usual starting time of the ordinary hours of work of the day shift on the day of the holiday and to end at the corresponding time on the following day except where the usual starting time of the ordinary hours of shift commences at or before midnight on a Sunday, in any factory, in which case each such holiday shall be deemed to commence at the same time at or before midnight on a Sunday and to end at the corresponding time on the day of the holiday.

 

(b)        In localities where no Labour Day is observed a day in lieu thereof shall be granted to employees and such day shall be arranged mutually between the employer and the union.

 

(c)        An employer and an employee, or an employer and the majority of employees in an establishment, may agree to observe an alternative day as a holiday in lieu of the last Monday in October.

 

(d)        Any employee required to work on any of the abovementioned holidays other than on Good Friday or Christmas Day shall be paid at the rate of double time and one half.

 

(e)        Any employee required to work on Good Friday or Christmas Day shall be paid at the rate of double time in addition to the ordinary rate of pay.

 

(f)         Any employee required to work on a Sunday shall be paid at the rate of double time.

 

2.          This variation shall take effect from 6 March 2006.

 

 

 

M. J. WALTON  J, Vice-President.

 

 

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